Manuscrit autographe intitulé "Sur la voie - via crucis - Vierges folles et vierges sages"

Manuscript, probably unpublished, written by André Suarès of 9 pages in red and green ink on laid Ingres d'Arches paper blue-gray, decorated with 7 initials including a two-color and a cul-de-lampe with colored pencils , a page title "Mad virgins and wise virgins" written in red and green ink by André Suarès, a second "Via Crucis - Mad Virgins & Virgins wise" in blue ink and a blanket "On the way - Via Crucis" adorned with patterns in colored pencils on laid Ingres d'Arches paper, typographic mentions in pencil and pen over the text.
In this vigorous but moving interpretation, André Suarès presents a very personal vision of the biblical parable of the wise virgins and the foolish virgins. Where the Christian religion exalted the virtue and foresight of the wise virgins, the author from Marseilles, who makes Jesus Christ speak here, takes a completely different path: " O you wise virgins, all of you, the marquises and the bourgeois, the patronesses, millionaires & dowry-bearers, you have not grasped anything in my parable : [...] You have taken the words & you have left the spirit. "
He reproaches them with their coldness towards their neighbor: " All the wax of the altars stops your ears. When the foolish virgins find themselves without oil, the wise virgins do not show compassion: " When the poor girls came to the meeting imploring you, all ashamed of being so devoid ... Y ou did not have them not even say no: avarice was on your lips, like Winter on the bark of the oak; and the saliva of pride loaded your tongues. "
After this long diatribe, he opposes to this false virtue which is practiced withdrawn from the world and without compassion, that of the foolish virgins who does not escape the life and the necessary defilement of the human being which it entails: " And you come, the poor Folles, you who know so well what it costs to live and die, to cry and to laugh [...] By what you love, your heart is alive & pure rest "As a result he invites them to " pass [r] first " because they are " closer to [him] ".